The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Frank Preston Stearns

Index

Adams, John Quincy
After-dinner speeches
Alcott, A. Bronson
“Ambitious Guest, The,”
“Ancestral Footstep, The,”
Antinous of the villa Ludovisi
“Arabella,” the ship
Arnold, Matthew
“Artist of the Beautiful, The,”
Athenæan Society
Atlantic Club
Aurelius, Marcus
Bacon’s, Miss, volume published
Balzac
Bancroft, George
Beethoven
Bennoch, Francis
“Blithedale Romance”
Blodgett’s boarding-house
“Bloody Footstep”
“Birth Mark, The,”
“Bosom Serpent, The,”
Bradford, George P
Brandes, Danish critic
Bridge, Horatio,
Bright, Henry A.
Brook Farm
Brown, John
Browning and Carlyle
Browning, Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, Robert
Buchanan, President
Carlyle and Hawthorne
Castor and Pollux, statues of
“Celestial Railroad, The”
Cenci, Beatrice, portrait of
Channing, Ellery
Channing, William H.
Cilley and Graves duel
Cilley, Jonathan
description of
Clarke, Edward H.
Clarke, Rev. Dr. James F.
“Code of Honor,” the
College skepticism
Columbia, statue of
Concord River
Conway, Rev. M. D.
Crab spider, the
Crawford, sculptor
“Critique of Pure Reason, The”
Curtis, George William
Dallas, George M.
Dante’s Inferno Dickens
“Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret”
Dolliver, Dr.
“Dolliver Romance, The”
Donatello’s crime
Dwight, John S., musical critic
Elgin marbles
Eliot, George
Emerson
essays
Emerson, Mrs. R. W.
her figure
religious views
English lakes
“English Note-book”
English scenery
Essex County people
Evans, Marian
“Fancy’s Show Box”
“Fanshawe”
“Faun of Praxiteles”
“Felton, Septimius,”
Fielding
Fields, James T
Florentine art
Fourier
Fuller, Margaret
as Zenobia
her marriage
Gardner, E. A., Prof
Genius, its growth
“Gentle Boy, The,”
Ghosts
Gibson, sculptor
his tinted Eves and Venuses
Gladstone, William E., on transcendentalism
Godkin, E. L.
Goethe
Golden Age, A
Goodrich, S. G., editor
“Great Carbuncle, The,”
“Great Stone Face, The,”
Guilty glimpses at hired models
Gurney, Prof. E. W.
“Hall of Fantasy, The,”
Harris, Dr. William T.
Harvard Law School
Hathorne, Daniel
Hathorne, John
witches’ judge
his last will
his gravestone
Hathorne, Joseph
Hathorne, Nathaniel
Hathorne, William
Letter to British Ministry
Hawthorne, Elizabeth
Hawthorne, Julian
Hawthorne, Louisa
her death
Hawthorne, Mrs. Sophia Peabody
becomes engaged to Hawthorne
writes to her mother
encourages her husband
praises her husband
is out of health
goes to Madeira
is presented at court
the original of Hilda
at Concord
her opinions
character and style
Hawthorne, Nathaniel,
his English ancestors
family name
birthplace
his lameness
early poetry
life at Sebago
his first diary
the budding of his genius
fits for college
“Pin Society”
religious instruction
decides on his vocation
has the measles
his life at Bowdoin
outdoor sports
is fined for gambling
graduates at Bowdoin
decides his profession
publishes “Fanshawe”
changes his name
despondency
goes to Lake Champlain
wins his bet with Cilley
commences his diary
his supposed challenge
thanks Longfellow
goes to Berkshire Hills
character of his diary
his engagement
enters Custom House
goes to Brook Farm
his marriage
his true Arcadia
his skating
opinion of Emerson
birth of a daughter
his indolence
style as an author
returns to Robert Manning’s house
is appointed Surveyor of the Port
son Julian is born
occupies house on Mall street
is removed from office
publishes “Scarlet Letter”
method of development
sits for his portrait; goes to Lenox
publishes “House of Seven Gables”
birth of his daughter Rose
leaves Lenox for Newton
returns to Concord
writes the “Life of Pierce”
the Liverpool consulate
sails for England
as an office-holder
his life in England
makes a speech
kindness to Delia Bacon
resigns the Consulate
as a law writer
goes to Paris
arrives at Rome
journeys to Florence
goes to the Vatican
on modern sculpture
returns to Rome
visits Geneva
summer at Redcar
publishes the “Marble Faun
Hawthorne the famous
begins to dislike writing
returns to Concord
method of writing
patriotism
proposes to arm negroes
preparatory sketches
sojourns at Beverly Farms
last entry in his journal
dedicates book to President Pierce
at home
personal appearance
seriously ill
Hawthorne’s philosophy
his death
his funeral
religious convictions
his position in literature
Hawthorne, Rose, her birth
her memoirs
Hawthorne’s mother
her character
her death
Hawthorne, Una, her birth
severe illness of
Hilda, character of
her tower
Hillard, George S.
Hoar, Miss Elizabeth
Holiday epauletes
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Hosmer, Harriet
Houghton, Lord
“House of the Seven Gables, The”
Howe, Dr. Samuel G.
Hunt, suicide of Miss
Italian Note-book
Jackson, Andrew
James, Henry, Jr.
James, Henry, Sr.
Jameson, Mrs. Anna
Jerrold, Douglas
Kansas-Nebraska Bill
Kant, Immanuel
Kemble, Frances
Kitridge, Doctor
“Lady Eleanor’s Mantle”
Laocoön Lathrop, George P.
Leamington
Lincoln, President
Liverpool Consulate
Longfellow, Henry W.
reviews Hawthorne
Loring, Frederick W.
Loring, Dr. George B.
Lowell, James Russell
Mann, Horace
Mann, Mrs. Horace
Manning family
Manning, Rebecca
Manning, Richard
Manning, Robert
“Marble Faun, The,” English reviews of
analysis of
its original
McClellan, General George B.
McMichael, Morton
Melville, Hermann
Mexican War
Michel Angelo
his Last Judgment and Moses “Miroir, Monsieur du”
“Mosses from an Old Manse”
Motley’s opinions
“Mrs. Bullfrog”
Niagara Falls, visit to
North American Review Nurse, Rebecca, a witch
Offensive partisanship
“Old Manse,” the
“Ontario Steamboat, The”
O’Sullivan, an editor
“Our Old Home”
Parker, Theodore
Peabody, Elizabeth
Peabody, Sophia Amelia
Philadelphia Hock Club
Pickard, Samuel T.
Pierce, Franklin
elected Senator
goes to the war
nominated for President
his father
various
Pike, William B.
Poetic mind, the
Politicians, opinion of
Portraits of Hawthorne by Osgood, Healy, Rowse, and
others
Positivists
Powers, Hiram
his America Prescott, George L
Prince of Wales
Pyncheon, Clifford
Quakers, persecution of
Raphael’s Transfiguration “Rappacini’s Daughter”
Reform Club of London
Ripley, George
Rock Ferry
Roman Carnival
Runnel, Mary, sweetheart of Daniel Hathorne
Ruskin
Sailors maltreated
Salem architecture
Salem, situation of
Salem society
Salem’s sea-captains
Sanborn, Frank B., attempt to kidnap
“Scarlet Letter, The,”
Schönbach, A. E., German critic
“Select Party, The,”
Shakespeare, authorship of
Epitaph
Shaw, Chief Justice
Shelley
Sheridan’s Ride
“Sights from a Steeple”
Silsbee, Edward
Sistine Chapel
Skepticism of evil
Slavery Question
“Snow Image”
Spartan discipline
Story, William W.
St. Petersburg Venus Sumner and Motley
Sumner, Charles
Swartwout’s defalcation
Symms, William, a mulatto
“Tanglewood Tales”
Taylor, President
Thoreau
of marriage
Ticknor, W. D., death of
Tituba, the Aztec
Tragedy, character of
Trance medium, a
Transcendentalism
essence of
Tupper, Martin Farquhar
Turner, J. M. W.
“Twice Told Tales”
“Unpardonable Sin, The,”
Upham, the historian
Vanity of Women
Vasari
Venus dé Medici “Vicar of Wakefield”
Victor Hugo
Villa Manteüto
“Virtuoso’s Collection, The,”
“Vision at the Fountain, The,”
Ward’s Tavern
Warwick Castle
Wasson, David A
Waters, Henry F., researches of
Wayside, The
Webster, Daniel
West Roxbury commune
Whittier, the poet
Wig Castle in Wigton
Witchcraft persecution
Wood, Warrington
Worcester, Doctor, the lexicographer
“Young Goodman Brown”